These people don’t play League of Legends like everyone else. They don’t really want to, truth be told. Dominion is a League of Legends mode that the game’s developer Riot released back in 2011 as an experiment. It focuses on capturing/holding locations and quick, frequent skirmishes between players, providing a fast-paced alternative to the main…
League of Legends‘ musty old tome of flimsy justifications for arbitrary arena fisticuffs is gone. Forever. In its place, Riot is rolling out a whole new world of lore and, you know, legends. What does that mean for the game, though? The first big story event in the wake of the shake-up is pretty telling.…
Look at that. I mean, just look at that. And also this: And this: Yeah, I want to explore this place. Badly. The “game” in question’s name? From The Heaven To The Stars. Pixel artist Yuriy “Megapont” Plekhanov lists it on his website as an “unfinished game experiment.” But will it ever become a, er,…
Wanna be able to beat the first level of Super Mario Bros 3 without looking? This guy figured out a really cool trick: jump along with the music. Pretty impressive, huh? Hardly the hardest level ever, but again: Riggs’ eyes were facing away from the whole video game part of the video game. Can’t stress…
Yeah, video game characters are great when they’re hopping, bopping, and shooting everything in sight, but the best reveal themselves when they’re standing still. No, not like that, you pervert and also me after I wrote that sentence. Idle animations. I’m talking about idle animations. The above video contains some great ones, although I wish…
DuckTales. Real ducks. I think I speak for everyone when I say, “[collapses into cutestolgia overload coma].” And/or “woo-ooo.” For comparison’s sake, here’s the original opening, which the real duck version apes (mixed animal metaphors!) gamely, pretty much scene-for-scene. And yeah, you’re probably gonna have this song stuck in your head for the rest of…
League of Legends‘ World Championship series—featuring the absurdly popular MOBA’s best players—is about to kick off. Major matches will be held all around, you know, the world, culminating in what will easily be one of the biggest eSports events ever. Still don’t care? Then watch this video. Truth be told, I’m not as up on…
Nintendo’s cultivated an image as the most squeaky clean creator on game company block, but it wasn’t always that way. And by that I mean the ’90s were weird, you guys. Gaming tumblr Pxlbyte brings us a smattering of old ads for the Game Boy and Game Boy Pocket, a few of which are oddly……
And so it began. Jason was referring to the glorious ham hammocks of Madden 15, at which point we all realized there was a very important matter to discuss. Then a slight detour But before long we were back on track, intrepidly mapping out the video game buttosphere for the betterment (butterment) of video game…
NHL 15 is supposed to be a sequel to last year’s entry in EA’s long-running hockey series, but it takes some serious steps backward. Dedicated fans aren’t happy. People have gained access to the game of graceful ice dancing (and also HITTING EVERYTHING) via EA’s new, er, EA Access program, which lets people try full…
Recently game studio Red Thread ran a competition to include fan-made music in revered adventure revival Dreamfall Chapters. Or at least, they tried to. The competition’s announcement was met with a growing chorus of outrage, and a large number of people criticized Red Thread for exploiting unpaid labor. Shortly after it began, the competition was…
This from the head of the network that streamed DOTA 2‘s 10 million dollar The International championship. OK then. ESPN President John Skipper didn’t mince words when asked about his thoughts on Amazon’s $970 million purchase of Twitch: “whatevs, breh.” OK, he didn’t actually say it that way, but he may as well have. Here,…
Well, this is unexpected. Even Captain Planet is baffled. TheJournal of Industrial Ecology (via Science Magazine) brings word that—in many cases—downloading video games actually harms the environment more than buying them on the ruthlessly manufactured ecological death frisbees we call discs. Crazy, right? Yeah, I’m skeptical too. According to the researchers, the energy intensity of…
Honest! They’re really gonna do it this time! Maybe. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony’s big-budget movie adaptation of the gorgeously desolate, utterly soul-wrenching Shadow of the Colossus has resurfaced once again, this time with a new director and producer. Andres Muschietti, director of Spanish horror film Mama, is climbing to the very top of…
No random matchmaking for endgame raids in Bungie’s new “shared world” shooter Destiny? No problem, say these fans. They’ll just make their own. Well, OK, kind of a problem, actually. Despite there being an established precedent for random matchmaking—that is, a game automatically sorting you into a group of other players—and pick-up groups in (some)…
A Google researcher has figured out how to predict each card his opponent will play in mega-popular online card game Hearthstone. Don’t (or do) worry, though: the tool he developed is staying locked away forever. Google anti-fraud and abuse research lead Elie Bursztein developed machine learning/data analysis tech specifically for Hearthstone, which he demonstrated in…
The Wii U is set to have quite a 2015, if the delay bug doesn’t bite. Nintendo of America tweeted a general release schedule for the Wii U’s next year, and it includes everything from Star Fox to Zelda to crazy Miyamoto projects like Project Guard and Project Giant Robot. What do you think?
Late last week word began to circulate that the PC version of Grand Theft Auto V was in big trouble because “Rockstar never wanted to release a PC version.” This led irate fans to, among other things, hack a marketing firm’s website. Rockstar, however, says our precious PC version is safe and sound. The original…
You might remember that Team Meat, two-man studio behind uber-tough platformer Super Meat Boy, was working on a mad science cat breeding sim, Mew-Genics. Moral of the story? Cats are gross, but awwww kitty! Now, though, it’s on hold in favor of a new Meat Boy game—for phones (and Steam). The new game is called…
Peggle 2, PopCap’s previously Microsoft-exclusive black hole time vortex of sheer addiction, is finally coming to PlayStation 4. PopCap confirmed the news on its Twitter account. The game will be out on October 14th. The EA published ball-based rainbow explosion classical music wonderment simulator originally launched on Xbox One late last year. It came to…
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